Sociological Thought

Contents: Preface. 1. Nature of social thought. 2. Auguste Comte. 3. Charles Cooley. 4. Eileen Barker. 5. Erving Goffman. 6. Francis Galton. 7. Gary Becker. 8. Georg Simmel. 9. Gregory Bateson.  10. Hannah Arendt. 11. Henri Bergson. 12. Herbert Simon. 13. Hugo O. Engelmann. 14. Jacques Derrida. 15. Jane Addams. 16. Jean Baudrillard. 17. Karl Pearson. 18. Louis Althusser. 19. Margaret Archer. 20. Robert Owen. 21. Roland Barthes. 22. Slavoj Zizek. 23. Theodor W. Adorno. 24. Thomas Robert Malthus. Index.

"Social thought, as distinguished from individual thought, treats of the welfare of one\'s associates and of groups. It may be very simple, merely observational, the result of daily experience, or it may be a scientific study of social processes. Sociology as an organized science has developed only during the past few decades. Inasmuch as sociology has simply begun its work of formulating the principles of societary progress." (jacket)